A litany by Margaret D. McGee, for use on Ascension Day or the Sunday after Ascension Day.
With open hearts, let us offer up our prayers together, saying,
Arise, O God,
Hear our prayer.
Arise, O God – Hear Our Prayer
Sun After Rain
Took a walk before lunch. Down Monroe Street, around the corner, along Washington under the trees that line Memorial Field. An older man walked toward me, about a half block ahead along the same sidewalk. He walked slowly with the help of a cane.
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Continue reading “The Mysteries of Faith”The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
into an object of affirmation and negation, when in
reality they should be an object of contemplation.
O God, Who Made the World
Responsive prayers by Margaret D. McGee, for use during Easter season or for All Saints/All Souls Day.
O God, who made the world and everything in it, we pray with one voice, proclaiming your presence to all the earth.
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A poem for Easter
by
Carolyn Temte
Sing aloud, O Mothers and Fathers!
A litany for Easter services, by Margaret D. McGee.
Sing aloud, O mothers and sons! Fathers and daughters, sisters and brothers, rejoice and exult with all your hearts! Let us offer our prayers and thanksgivings with one voice, calling out the good news —
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A Poem for Holy Week
by Tom Robb
A Love Story
Homily for Maundy Thursday
by
Margaret D. McGee
Tonight, we hear a love story. At the story’s end, our God and Creator is visible, real and present, at a supper table, among a circle of friends.
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Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. At the Ash Wednesday service this evening, our rector Dianne Andrews will draw a cross on my forehead in ash and tell me to “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” She’ll do that for every person who walks up to the altar. In response, I’ll say “Amen!”
Continue reading “Remember That You Are Dust”Letting Go, and Letting Go
It's Lent, and I find myself in a process of letting go, and letting go.Continue reading “Letting Go, and Letting Go”
In the Courtyard 